RE: [APML] OT: spam blocking software

["Bill Beeman" <bbeeman@beemangroup.com>]

You might want to try Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition from
www.panicware.com.  When you are on a site where you want 
pop-ups to work you just "Ctrl-click" and the pop-up works.

I find few "auto-magically" pop-ups that I want.  It took a 
day or so to build the reflex to hit the control key while
I clicked, but the net gain was huge.

Regards,

Bill Beeman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Matt BenDaniel
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 11:12 AM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: RE: [APML] OT: spam blocking software
> 
> 
> I agree that the quantity of spam has gotten ridiculous; It 
> seems like it's gotten much worse in the past few weeks. The 
> spam I get that advertises anti-spam software smacks of 
> "protection money" to me. I've just started using 
> SpamCatcher. Seems to work. Anyone else using SpamCatcher?
> 
> BTW on pop-up stoppers, I tried a few them last year, but 
> they kept interfering with sites I like to use (e.g. ebay). 
> The authors of the anti-popups assert that you can manually 
> configure to fix such problems, but too much manual 
> intervention was required, so I just forgot about anti-popups 
> altogether. Do they work better now?
> 
> Here's another issue: spybots. If you have not taken any 
> provisions to fight these things, they're almost certainly 
> active on your computer. They report on your activities to 
> their "masters" out on the internet, potentially reporting on 
> almost everything you do. These should be illegal. I just ran 
> a free anti-spybot program called  SpyBot S&D 
> (http://www.safer-networking.net/) that found a huge 
> infestation of these parasites on my computer (I'm somewhat 
> promiscuous on the internet), and at my consent, it wiped out 
> all of them. My computer runs noticeably faster now. Who 
> knows what private info I've already leaked out to who knows 
> who. Anti-Virus software (e.g. norton, mcaffee) do NOT block spybots.
> 
> Matt
> 
> At 10:33 05-05-03 -0700, Bill Beeman wrote:
> >I recommend Cloudmark's Spamnet.  It has been free in the 
> beta version,
> >but looks like they are moving to a small charge.  In any 
> event, I will
> >stay with it.  It is highly effective, and, most importantly, has a
> >vanishingly small false positive rate.  Given the volume of 
> spam that I
> >see here I don't want to have to spend the time to comb through the
> >rejected mail folder to look for stuff that was dumped but 
> was not spam.
> >www.cloudmark.com
> >
> >The downside is that it works only with Outlook, although a 
> version for
> >use with Outlook Express is due shortly.
> >
> >Good Luck!
> >
> >Bill Beeman
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> >> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Bobby Middleton
> >> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 5:15 AM
> >> To: astro-photo@seds.org
> >> Subject: [APML] OT: spam blocking software
> >>
> >>
> >> You guys have any suggestions for good spam blocking
> >> software? It's past
> >> totally ridiculous.
> >> Bobby Middleton
> 
> --
> Matt BenDaniel
> matt@starmatt.com
> http://starmatt.com
> 
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